Join Polly Young-Eisendrath Ph.D. and Mark Unno Ph.D. for this deep three-day event. Buddhist practices can be understood as inquiries into individual experience within a community, whereas analytic psychotherapy is an inquiry into mutual discovery through a dyadic relationship. While Buddhism invites us to investigate the subjective and objective worlds, psychotherapy especially invites us to investigate the intersubjective. In this course, we will explore both the resonances and divergences between psychotherapy and Buddhist practice in these regards, focusing on selected strands in depth psychology and psychoanalysis, on the one hand, and Zen, Pure Land Buddhism, and Vipassana Mindfulness, on the other. Themes of subjectivity, objectivity, and intersubjectivity will be especially helpful in thinking through Buddhism in a Western context, where the majority of practitioners are living in couple and family relationships. The course emphasizes both embodied practice and reflective inquiry.

Applications for 10 continuing education credits for psychologists and social workers have been submitted for this course. Accrediting agencies are the National Association for Social Workers (NASW) and the Institute for Mediation and Psychotherapy (IMP). You can find more information about social work licensure board endorsements here. Please confirm with your licensing board whether the CEs offered are applicable for your licensure before registration. For more information about CEs through BCBS, please click here.